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The Battle for Your Brain Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

Nita A. Farahany

A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people w...

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

It was mentioned during a discussion about AI, as the author had been on a bioethics commission in the Obama administration.

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I did an interview with Nita Farahani recently who is super interesting, has that new book, Battle for Your Brain, out.

— Episode: 5/9/23: Was TX Shooter A White Supremaci...

Episode: 5/9/23: Was TX Shooter A White Supremacist, Buttig...

It was mentioned during a discussion about AI, as the author had been on a bioethics commission in the Obama administration.

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I did an interview with Nita Farahani recently who is super interesting, has that new book, Battle for Your Brain, out.

Episode: 5/9/23: Was TX Shooter A White Supremacist, Buttig...

It was mentioned during a discussion about AI regulation and the lack of a council or commission on bioethics under the Biden administration.

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I did an interview with Nita Farahani recently who is super interesting, has that new book, Battle for Your Brain, out.

Stay Tuned with Preet

It explored the ethical and legal challenges posed by AI and neurotechnology, particularly regarding brain sensors and their potential impact on privacy and freedom of thought.

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The Battle for Your Brain, defending the right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology.

— Episode: In Brief: Balancing AI, Ethics, and Free...

Episode: In Brief: Balancing AI, Ethics, and Freedom (with...

It explored the ethical and legal challenges posed by AI and neurotechnology, particularly regarding brain sensors and their potential impact on privacy and freedom of thought.

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The Battle for Your Brain, defending the right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology.

What this book is about is not about Neuralink, which is Elon Musk's company of trying to implant electrodes into the brain to read brain activity and change brain activity, or even Tom Oxley's company Synchron that goes up through the jugular vein and puts neurotechnology inside the body.

So this book, right, is designed to do two things. One is to help people understand that neurotechnology is here, that it's about to go mainstream, that it's going to be part of our everyday lives, and it's going to raise these complex questions about do you have any right to mental privacy? Do you have a right to cognitive liberty? Do you have a right to keep private your thoughts?

In my book, The Battle for Your Brain, right, I give examples of the ways in which neurotechnology is already being used in the workplace and, you know, governments and individuals who are using it for their own benefits.

I want to mention again Nita, your amazing, excellent book, The Battle for Your Brain, Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.

Episode: Is There a Right to Privacy of Thought? (with Nita...

It was finished and discussed in detail, focusing on the right to think freely in a world with neurotechnology, and was expected to be released in March 2023.

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the battle for your brain Defending your right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology.

It comes out March 14th, 2023.

It can be pre-ordered. It's already on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and everywhere else...

it really emphasizes the brain they went with... it's a kind of big think book Apparently there's a particular style that they think big think books reflect well, and so it's a pretty minimalist

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